- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
“Benevolent sexism”. I learn new language almost every day, and almost always spurred by researching something from our readers.
I received an email about a comment made during a recorded local board meeting, open to the public. A young female staff person was ...
“At every level of government elections have consequences” says Kevin Smith, Grey Bruce Labour Council President. Smith adds, “with such profound polarization in our population today, this may never be more to the point than in a few weeks when we cast votes for municipal politicians”.
Fortunately, polarization is not fatal, but it may be deeply harmful and ...
- by Jim Hutton
In Part I we saw that Owen Sound residents had to use a much larger percentage of their income to pay their property taxes than Collingwood residents. It’s important to note that if you rent an apartment you don’t escape our high taxes. It’s unlikely that your landlord absorbs the city’s tax increases. These increases are normally just ...
- by Jim Hutton
One question that many who have read my analysis of Owen Sound’s current financial situation is: “So our city has fallen on hard times, but haven’t all municipalities been struggling?”. To answer this question we really need to compare our city to similarly sized communities in our area. The best candidate that I found for this comparison ...
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